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Salon Lab: Preventing Gun Violence in Chicago
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Wait list opportunity: Please email Connections@ucls.uchicago.edu to be added to the waitlist for this event if you are still interested.
Monday, April 28, 2014, 6 p.m.
Hosted by Ashley, MBA’07, JD’07, and Jennifer Keller in their home
While mortality rates from almost every leading cause have declined dramatically over the past 50 years, homicide rates in America are now about the same as they were in 1900. The three speakers have studied Chicago-based gun violence, crime, and gangs and will discuss their varying perspectives and solutions. Their analysis is based on diverse experiences—the speakers include a leading academic studying social and economic research, a 20-year veteran of the Chicago police force in both the gang violence and homicide units, and a journalist who has won countless awards for his explorations of race in America.
Jens Ludwig is the McCormick Foundation professor of social service administration, law, and public policy in the School of Social Service Administration and Chicago Harris. He is also the director of UChicago’s Crime Lab, which partners with government agencies and NGOs in Chicago and around the country to carry out large-scale randomized social experiments to learn more about how to most effectively (and cost-effectively) prevent crime and violence. Crime Lab projects have had an impact on policy locally and nationally and have been featured in such media outlets as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. In 2012 Ludwig was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.
Alex Kotlowitz is the author of There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. The New York Public Library selected There Are No Children Here as one of the 150 most important books of the century. He is also the producer of the documentary The Interrupters, which received the Independent Spirit Award for best documentary and was based on his New York Times Magazine article “Blocking the Transmission of Violence.” He is a writer in residence at Northwestern University and winner of numerous book awards and journalism prizes including a Peabody Award.
Sergeant Jose “Pepe” Lopez joined the Chicago Police Department in 1995. He was promoted to detective in 2000 and assigned to Area Four, investigating homicides until 2005. He was then assigned to the Gang Investigation Division, Homicide Team–South. Promoted to sergeant in 2007, he went to the 002nd District, where he worked on the Area One Gang Team. He left gang enforcement in 2011. Currently, Lopez supervises the Area Central Team of the newly created Gang Investigation Division.
Ticket price: $350 per person
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